IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 78KY-121-008
  • User Pedon ID: 78KY-121-008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 78KY-121-008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 78KY-121-008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46662
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 1000 feet NE of a house 2 miles up Gregory Branch; 0.5 mile south of Artemus
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY121—Knox
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY627—Knox and Eastern Part of Whitley Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36083-G7—Artemus, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.H. Newton and Paul Love
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Mixed geologic formation from strip mining
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MESA

    ROPS

    TRIFO

    Medicago sativa

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    Trifolium

    alfalfa

    black locust

    clover

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    5

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    AC—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) channery silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2228
    C1—30 to 91 centimeters (11.8 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2229
    C2—91 to 147 centimeters (35.8 to 57.9 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 50 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) channery silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2230
    C3—147 to 183 centimeters (57.9 to 72.0 inches); 50 percent gray (5Y 5/1) and 50 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) channery silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY2231